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The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...
Hitler unleashed the Night of the Long Knives, a ruthless purge that eliminated internal threats, silenced rivals and secured ...
Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...
The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...
From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...
A physicist proposes that time has three dimensions instead of one, which could finally unite quantum mechanics and ...
Henri Bergson, on the other hand, was widely misunderstood in the years succeeding the debate from the evening of 6 April, ...
Quirks & Quarks features our ever-popular listener question show, where we find experts to answer your questions. But here are ten mysteries that science has yet to answer.
The Big Bang theory is wrong and the universe is sitting inside a black hole, scientists have suggested. Since the 1930s – when Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemaitre proposed the universe ...
There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. So could we ever harness this energy for ...
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence.
What is length contraction in relativity? Length contraction is a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of special relativity. It states that the length of a moving object decreases in the ...